Public perception of artificial intelligence

As is the case with anything new, it can be difficult for the general public to trust new technology, especially when they can’t fully comprehend how it works. Over the past several decades, more and more of the inner workings of technology are becoming hidden “in the box” – in other words, it’s now harder… Read more Public perception of artificial intelligence

Blockchain 2.0, Blockchain + IoT

Blockchain Past, Now, Future Blockchain’s origin was as the base technology that supported Bitcoin. It comes from Bitcoin, but it is more than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a very successful application built on Blockchain technology. Started in 2009, Blockchain has evolved in three phases. Blockchain 1.0 (past, now):     digital currency, like bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin, OKcoin… Read more Blockchain 2.0, Blockchain + IoT

Hic Sunt Dracones

The Space Race started with an early lead by the Soviet Union, which managed to reach a stable orbit with the first ever artificial satellite, the Sputnik 1. This impressive achievement started the so-called “Sputnik Crisis” in the United States, as the West feared that the USSR had surpassed it in space-related technologies, which had obvious… Read more Hic Sunt Dracones

Drawbacks of Deep Learning

In order to solve a problem, deep learning enables machines to mirror the human brain by making use of artificial neural networks. These networks are known to run a variety of applications such as speech recognition devices like Siri and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Deep learning has hence been recognized as one of the major research areas… Read more Drawbacks of Deep Learning

True or False.

Last week, our guest speaker Craig Martell spoke of how AI is exaggerated in movies and is highly unlikely to come in the form of the Terminator or Skynet taking over control of your vehicle and driving it off the road. In reality, AI is just advanced statistics, using algorithms like logistic regression and xgboost… Read more True or False.

The risks of AI: Reality or Science Fiction?

In his guest lecture about the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, Craig Martell, Head of Science and Engineering at LinkedIn, pointed out that Artificial Intelligence is often presented in a wrong way. Scenarios in which machines get super intelligent and pose a serious risk to human beings seemed to be rather unlikely to him. This blog… Read more The risks of AI: Reality or Science Fiction?

The Need for Caution in Government Use of AI

To date, machine learning has been used primarily to determine product offerings: What movies should Netflix recommend its users? What products should Amazon recommend? However, certain tech companies are now marketing machine learning applications to governments and public agencies. For example, tech firm Predpol uses “real-time epidemic-type aftershock sequence crime forecasting” and historical crime data… Read more The Need for Caution in Government Use of AI

Government and Technology: Initiative to Move Old Infrastructures to Public Cloud

With a few exceptions, federal, state and local governments have not been considered the forefront of technology. This largely stems from very visible governmental agencies, such as the DMV and USPS, being notoriously inefficient. From this perspective, this week’s guest speaker, Richard Rogers, was particularly interesting, as very few people think of any government agencies… Read more Government and Technology: Initiative to Move Old Infrastructures to Public Cloud

Demystifying Quantum Computing

There are a lot of buzzwords in and around Silicon Valley these days – AI, machine learning, blockchain, crypto etc – but there’s one buzzword that could have a lasting impact on technology as a whole – quantum computing. The reason quantum computing is so exciting is because it’s a rare advance in hardware computing.… Read more Demystifying Quantum Computing

Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?

  What has not been digitalized yet? Online shopping is becoming more popular and electronic books are common these days. In the business field, there are many buzz words such as “edtech”, ”fintech”, ”insurtech”, etc. which means that introducing new technology is the current trend. But some claim that digitalizing everything has a lot of… Read more Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?